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I found something interesting about Missingno. in Spanish Pokemon Blue. While its sprite was consistent for a while, more recently I found that Missingno. had a different sprite from before. It seems like in Spanish versions of Pokemon, Missingno. has a variable sprite. As to where it takes its sprite data from, I realized that every previous time I encountered Missingno., I always had my Mew sent out. This time, I had forgot to switch Mew to the front and I had my Hex FD glitch pokemon in front instead, suggesting that Missingno. takes its sprite from something related to the player's active Pokemon. To test this, I tried switching my Eevee to the front to see if I got a different result, but I got the same sprite as I had got from Mew. i then tested my hex FF glitch pokemon and sure enough, I got the same sprite, so it seems that there is something about hex FD that messes with Missingno.'s sprite.

This is unrelated, but I also learned on accident that if a glitch Pokemon leans glitch move 0x00 by level up, it will only try to learn it if it already knows four moves.

id bank
0x15 0x01
0xB6 0x0B
0x00 to 0x1E 0x09
0x1F to 0x49 0x0A
0x4A to 0x73 0x0B
0x74 to 0x98 0x0C
0x99 to 0xFF 0x0D

The Missingno I encountered was hex 50.

Also, another interesting property I found- if a glitch Pokemon evolves multiple times, and in the middle it learns a move or tries to learn a move, then each subsequent evolution until returning to the overworld will look like the Pokemon that it is evolving into is evolving into itself. If that sounds confusing, here's an example (this was where I noticed it):
Hex FC in Spanish Red/Blue evolves 5 times (and counting): first into Slowpoke, then into a glitch Pokemon I don't recognize, then Nidoran male, then Arcanine, then Cubone. Once, when it evolved into the glitch Pokemon, it tried to learn Horn Drill. After that, it looked like Nidoran was evolving into Nidoran, then Arcanine into Arcanine, then Cubone into Cubone.

Something odd happened while I was doing the old man glitch, I did it mostly normally, did accidentally view the demonstration twice, but when I started surfing on the cinnabar island coast, I encountered a level 43 ditto, which afaik isn't supposed to happen, I did encounter a missingno after that, so that still worked, I had prior to viewing the old man come from route 23, where such a thing can be encountered, and in fact I had done so a while before. I was on the virtual console version of blue, English version. Is this normal

The Missingno I encountered was hex 50.

Also, another interesting property I found- if a glitch Pokemon evolves multiple times, and in the middle it learns a move or tries to learn a move, then each subsequent evolution until returning to the overworld will look like the Pokemon that it is evolving into is evolving into itself. If that sounds confusing, here's an example (this was where I noticed it):
Hex FC in Spanish Red/Blue evolves 5 times (and counting): first into Slowpoke, then into a glitch Pokemon I don't recognize, then Nidoran male, then Arcanine, then Cubone. Once, when it evolved into the glitch Pokemon, it tried to learn Horn Drill. After that, it looked like Nidoran was evolving into Nidoran, then Arcanine into Arcanine, then Cubone into Cubone.

Will find 0x50's sprite pointers for you. <3

RE: evolutions, this is known but not sure if technical details were confirned.

the hooked metaphor effect

I'm just gonna dump some miscellaneous observations I've accumulated-
- Glitch Pokemon 0xEA in Blue ES has a backsprite that crashes the game, but what's more interesting is that the crash is not consistent. The first time it crashed, the tileset glitched out and the game was frozen. The second time, I got sent back to the emulator menu. The third time, I got a crash with stripes and after a second the entire emulator crashed.
- The super glitch item I've been using for Rival LOL seems to change between being a regular item and being a key item. When it's a regular item, tossing it turns it into a key item.
-The Rhydon I caught from the Rhydon trap cannot be withdrawn from the PC. I was able to deposit it just fine, and it showed up in the move menu, but when I selected withdraw it told me that the box was empty. I don't know if this has been documented, nor do I know whether this was caused by the rhydon trap ofr the fact that it's level 101 and has more HP than it's supposed to be able to have.
- Using 9F in a trainer battle causes the battle to restart. I think this is probably documented somewhere, but I don't know where.
- Cooltrainer once disguised itself as "Ter ballabra". Upon consulting Google Translate because I've never seen these words before, it translated to "bitelace". I don't know that that refers to either, nor does spellcheck apparently. It could be that it is a corrupted string of text that through some freak coincidence reads as something legible, or this could be a string of text that appears somewhere in the game and is very poorly translated. Strings of text that appear elsewhere sometimes do appear as Cooltrainer's name (It once took the name Take Down), so it's possible.
-This isn't a glitch, but Softboiled in Spanish is translated into "Amortiguador", which directly translates to shock absorber or muffler. Given that softboiled refers to an egg and shock absorber refers to a car part, I don't see the connection. I was only able to deduce that it was softboiled from the fact that it is a field move.
-Some glitch pokemon look like a block of q's when on the evolution screen after something evolves into it.
-This also isn't a glitch but Hex F1's movepool is so damn big, in my notes it's a brick of text that takes up half a page in google docs
Also, many glitch Pokemon change the color of the textboxes when their sprites are on the screen, I know this has probably been documented as it's relatively common, but what is this effect called?